Kafka Contracts in the West Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 106 116
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 +43
Contract jobs citing Kafka 18 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.23% 0.24% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.26% 1.73% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 6
10th Percentile £479 - £491
25th Percentile - £275 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £544
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -33.33% +9.30%
75th Percentile £513 £516 £647
90th Percentile £588 £656 £668
England median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 248 289 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.96% 14.15% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 197 243
10th Percentile £381 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £681
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 0
10th Percentile - £14.23 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile - £56.25 -
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £49.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.63% -23.46% +22.07%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the West Midlands

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +18 10 £500 -14.89% 20
Coventry +8 6 - - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (33.33%) Collibra
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 6 (33.33%) GIS
2 5 (27.78%) MongoDB
2 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Database
3 4 (22.22%) Power BI
4 3 (16.67%) Big Data
5 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.56%) Flink
6 1 (5.56%) MySQL
6 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JUnit
2 4 (22.22%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Banking
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
1 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Data Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Gherkin
2 4 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.56%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.56%) Mustache
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) PySpark
4 1 (5.56%) React
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) IoT
2 6 (33.33%) SCADA
3 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.56%) Data Fabric
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) ETL
2 7 (38.89%) Analytics
2 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Data Governance
3 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 6 (33.33%) Microservices
3 6 (33.33%) SDLC
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) Data Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Data Mapping
4 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
5 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 3 (16.67%) Observability
6 3 (16.67%) RBAC
6 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 7 (38.89%) Java
4 6 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (16.67%) Bicep
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (27.78%) GDPR
3 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) logstash
4 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) QRadar
4 1 (5.56%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Databricks
2 6 (33.33%) Informatica
2 6 (33.33%) SAP
3 5 (27.78%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk